Never laugh at live dragons.
J. R. R. TOLKIENIt does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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The road goes ever on and on
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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I will not walk backward in life.
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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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